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Title: Age of Exploration


1
Age of Exploration
  • Chapter 17

2
Why Explore?
3
Why Explore?
  • Three Gs
  • Curiosity
  • Crowding
  • Technology
  • Spices and Silk

4
Technology
5
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Portugal Leads the Charge!
7
Portugal Leads the Charge!
  • Sailed down coast of Africa in search of gold and
    spices
  • Prince Henry the Navigator- school
  • Dias Cape of Good Hope
  • De Gama- rounded Cape, sailed to India
  • Columbus- sailed for Spain-western route to
    Asia-Hispaniola
  • Amerigo Vespucci- explored eastern seaboard
  • Magellan circumnavigated the globe-sailed for
    Spain

8
Treaty of Tordesillas
9
Age of Conquerers
  • Brazil slaves from Africa imported to work
    plantations
  • Mexico Cortes- believed to be God
    Quetzalcoatl-showered w/gold, takes over
    Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)
  • Mayans- civilized
  • Peru Pizarro-capture Atahualpa-ransom
    paid-killed anyway
  • West Indies- Natives encomienda system, later
    slaves

10
Mayans
11
Incas - Peru
12
Aztecs
13
Other Colonists
  • Dutch Indonesia, New York, South Africa
  • French Eastern US and Canada
  • Verrazano-east coast including Hudson River
  • Cartier-Montreal
  • Champlain-Quebec
  • La Salle Mississippi River valley
  • Also St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique
  • England East Coast Canada and US
  • Cabot Newfoundland
  • Jamestown, Plymouth,
  • Jamaica

14
Commercial Systems
  • Enslavement of natives
  • Encomienda system
  • Indentured servants
  • Importation of slaves from Africa, later islands
    led to Triangular trade Middle Passage
  • Trading Companies, Joint Stock Companies
  • Mercantilism and Columbia Exchange

15
Enslavement from Africa
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